Just a quick alert for everyone. We received an email from Library of Congress' CDS Customer Service Team today stating the following: "There has been an unexpected service interruption in updating our daily and weekly MDS records. This service interruption was unplanned and we are working with technicians and system administrators to troubleshoot the technical issues."

The MDS Service includes sending us weekly new/updated Authority Files to incorporate into our authorities processing. So what does this mean for you? Unfortunately, it's unclear at this time since we don't know how long the interruption will last. It's possible things will be resolved next week and you won't notice any difference in your Notification or Bibliographic Update services (we’ll cross our fingers for this)! It's also possible that you may experience smaller than normal batches. If this indeed is the case that also means that once LC is able to fully restore their functionality that you may then receive a larger than normal batch as a "catch up". You shouldn’t notice any major negative impact for your Basefile or Current Cataloging services.

As we receive updates from Customer Service on estimated time for full restoration of service, we'll let you know!

Ms. Casey Cheney, PMP | Vice President, Automation Services
Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Phone: 801.356.1852 x692 | Fax: 801.356.8220 | ccheney@bslw.com | www.bslw.com